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One of Sina BBS’s “HOT” threads last week: “People’s Congress Delegate Advocates Repealing Concept of Illegal Cohabitation, Do You Support?” It was posted by “eastinred,” who kicks things off with a long response titled, “This People’s Congress delegate’s proposal puts the incidental in front of the fundamental,” some of which I translate…

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Linked to on PostShow, and appearing in various BBS’s and websites:

《祸布斯》10大穷光蛋排行榜 (Huobus’ Top Ten Poor Bastards Chart)

Each post is accompanied by ten pictures, some more exaggerated and satirical than the others. It is satirical because, for example, the number one entry is about the Chinese football players and the debt caused by their debauchery. Most…

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Everyone says sex makes the Internet go round; maybe it’s just a little more obvious in China?  Sandwiched in between Tianya photo posts on Qing dynasty-era embroidery and government officials planting trees is one of Tianya’s most popular ongoing photo threads of the year: an adult industry exhibition in Las Vegas. Over 400,000 have viewed the pages in the…

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If you’re curious about how the new Five-Year Plan compares with previous Five-Year Plans, you can browse China Mapping Out the 11th Five-Year Development Guidelines, which reminds us that the 1st Five-Year Plan’s (1953-1957) goals were pretty different than today:

to concentrate efforts on the
construction of 694 large and medium-sized industrial projects,
including 156…

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Okay, so I don’t know why these are so fascinating to me, but I couldn’t help but spend ten minutes comparing the lovely photos Jason blogged below (you really should see the whole set at PCAuto), with their counterparts from a map of Beijing that Rania Ho has on her Flickrstream, and which I …

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A growing facet of Virtual China: Maryann O’Donnell’s Shenzhen Fieldnotes has a great post on her thoughts about finding out that her local hospital in Nanshan is a leader in alternative stem-cell therapies for foreign patients. O’Donnell compares China stem cell blogs and
China adoption blogs. These two sets of online resources are major
contributors to understandings of China, outside of…

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The Bus Uncle meme has made it onto a song by a HK group called 軟硬天師 (Soft Hard). The song is called 拍膊頭 (Shoulder Pat), and the CD is called “Long Time No See.”

Yahoo HK’s page for the album.
Buy at YesAsia!

Thanks Josh for the…

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Do you translate articles from Chinese into English regularly? Have you translated half of an article only to suddenly see that blogger XXX just released a translation? Do you want help on your translations?

If you identify with these concerns, then the chinesecontent community is for you. Its members include A-list China bloggers such as Roland Soong of ESWN…

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Via the Asian Studies WWW Monitor, this set of 1940s Tibet photos taken by an American army expedition sent to Tibet from India to see about getting supplies to the KMT.  The collection of over 200 black and white photos is maintained by Dr Rob Linrothe, Associate Professor and Director of Art History at Skidmore College.  A few were published…

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